Post Sandow's system training

Hello. I haven't posted in a long while and now I have quite many photos and some videos which I already don't remember how to qualify nor sort. I'll just give some short comments and let you make your own conclusions. The photos range from the beginning of 2018 to the present day of 2019 (end of September).

These were my average meals for a long time (half a year to a year)

Here I was traveling for a month and I took my dumbbells with me loaded to be 9 kg each, thus I used Sandow's method to stay fit while away from home. I exercised every other day during the trip.

Just a random shots on one day after training, but this training wasn't Sandow's system. It's a usual free weights training. Later you'll see my exercises.

I made my wife do exercises too and she was fit while she lasted. Unfortunately she is a down-to-earth woman who won't do any kind of exercises unless pushed. She didn't last long.

I tried to get splits, I tried every other day, I tried every day, for 3 months, then for half a year and this is what I had reached.

Here I had to move my gym to my small apartment which didn't stop me from training, although in a tight environment.

My friend gave me a 3 months membership in a gym so I trained there with him, but he was "just toning" and I was just doing my stuff.

This was an outing to a place where I could swim. I got the fat on my belly when I was trying to bulk using Sandow's system and a lot of food. Later I could never get rid of it, but to be honest I haven't tried hard to lose it. It's annoying but doesn't bother me that much.

Here are some photos after a while of training with free weights (dumbbells, barbell and other stuff, not Sandow's).

I had to stay at an airport for a day yet I didn't skip my stretching.

Here when I was at my mom's I had to use Sandow's system to keep myself fit because there were dumbbells only. I added an exercise for the back and my mom and wife and the cat had to help me to counterbalance me.

I was traveling again and used what I could to stay more or less fit.

On this day I bought some more plates for dumbbells: 7.5 kilos, 5 kilos, 3 kilos. I had progressed to the point when my old set of plates wasn't enough already. Later I bought 10 kilos plates too.

I continued stretching for splits, unsuccessfully.

My food intake rose to this size and I kept it for maybe half a year.

These are my "new" exercises with weights. I started using them after I had tried Sandow's system from the beginning to the end. It should be more than 2 years already that I've been doing these exercises. That's the only stable thing. If you take my food then it's always different and I raise the quantity or decrease it from time to time. Then there's also the way I do the exercises, it's different every now and then and I am not sure if it's good or bad. In the course of time I've been doing this I've gone from training 3 days a week to 1, from doing 4 sets of each exercise per training session to 1, from switching the weights in 4 sets from 50% to 100% of the working weight to just having 100%, from 10 reps to 8. That's not all, I did balanced training (strength/size, 10 reps), I did pure strength training (3-5 reps), currently I am doing none of the above (8 reps, 8 seconds each rep). So, for now I think I crystallized the optimal way of training for me: 1 training session (14 exercises, usually 8 reps 8 seconds each rep), 5 days rest, rinse and repeat. I haven't done it for a long time yet (1 month for now), but I hope it will give me what I need. For example, after the 2nd week of such training my biceps grew half centimeter and 4 millimeters bigger right one and left one correspondingly.
This is day 1 training of the 1st month.

This is day 2 training of the 1st month.

This is day 3 training of the 1st month.

In February of 2019 I started to use protein powder replacing chicken meat with it.

Here's day 1 training of the 2nd month.

Here's day 2 training of the 2nd month.

The 3rd day of training of the 2nd month is missing, but fret not as there is a video with all the exercises I did on the 3rd day and all others. I'll put it in the next post.

Final fantasy XV's Prompto trapped himself

Weird China

Nihao! This time the post will be about China and its weirdness.

Why go to a toilet when there is a street!

Why hire somebody who knows English when there is a free automatic translator!

And so we have noodle from hell and people emptying their guts and bladders everywhere.

A golden noodle

A city aquare! It's like a square only with water - AQUARE

Chopsticks health is very important 

Children are practically everywhere: banks, police offices, government offices. So don't be upset if your documents disappear or get damaged - it may be the result of a cute child playing at mommy's or daddy's work place.

The hell is here, in a public service center.

Some mistakes, even in a big city's public Wi-Fi network interface. 

This one is just funny - it may be read as АИСТА in Russian.

Scat airplane and other stuff

Hello, today I am presenting several things in this post.

1 - An airplane full of scat

2 - I printed a picture to decorate my custom disc and look what happened to the print after several years in a CD-bag

3 - A photo of a cave which looks like a cat or an owl

4 - A Japanese girl which could be sexy but for her ugly knee cap. Actually it may turn someone on, just not me

TRIGUN

I liked the anime a lot, definitely watch it if you didn't.

People in the anime use English language yet they write something strange sometimes, maybe some f them are just illiterate? Coffe & Restlant

In this scene a part on the rifle changes.

The mask

The film itself is funny and worth watching.

Now, there is one blooper I found: the mask is sent flying facing up, but then outside it is facing down, and when it returns it is facing up again.

Mortal Kombat conquest

Overall it's an okay show with decent fights which sometimes are very inventive.

Here is one scene where something strange is happening to the female characters clothes. It's off, it's half on, and there's another piece of clothing appearing out of nowhere.

The X-files and a bad casting choice

I have already posted a note about The X-files recasting the same actress for different roles in the show and now it's the same topic - obviously the same person playing a different character in the same show!

Tracey Ellis was in Oubliette episode portraying a victim of a kidnapper and then she appeared once again in Audrey Pauley episode playing a kind of a nurse in a hospital.

Lupin the 3rd Cagliostro no shiro

Okay, it's interesting how the creators of the anime can't make the titular Character's name out. Cagliostro becomes CALIGOSTLO. Perhaps that's how we should actually call him?

Fist of legend

Let's see a lame "special effect" of impaling a human with a broad sword.

Let's see how the clothes miraculously crawled  down on the body to cover it  during the jump.

Now let's look at Jet Li's doubles. If you look closely enough then you can notice that in many of his films he did a little of the fighting scenes himself and most of the work was carried out by his doubles.

Aa, megami-sama (hunters and hunters)

Here I would like to point out the incorrect Russian. The word Winner which is used by godly machine is ПОБЕДИТЕЛЬ and Belldandi would look like this Беллданди (Веллданди).

День Йуха!

День Йуха!

В Украине прошёл день х у я, полицейские отпраздновали выстроив фигуру х у я из полицейских машин, а из людей воссоздали волосы лобковые и  х у й о в ы е.

Прошёл этот замечательный праздник 17-го мая 2019-го года.

А, как это Дмитрий Медведев затесался в украинский парламент на заседание, да ещё и во фракцию Ляшка! 😀 Возле Еврофлага.